While most nations build large, heavy armored trucks and SUVs, India has something else as well. Something which can be best described as an armored golf cart. It’s called the Metaltech Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart, and costs a whopping $45,000. The small size indicates its primary use as protective vehicle in Mumbai’s narrow streets and alleys.
Well, here’s a whole new reason to take mass transit instead of your car–at least if a bus driver goes nuts and launches on a demolition derby, you’re probably safer inside the bus than outside.
Based on the characters that keep showing up, and the less than remarkable, downright “Engrish” translation issues, I’m reasonably confident this is going on somewhere in Asia. Sadly, the video doesn’t tell us just where, but the video is still downright amazing in its own right.
You won’t believe how little regard a passenger bus has for your average small car–it was almost like they weren’t even there. You might even think there wasn’t much damage done, until you check out the video from the LEFT side of the bus. Cars were getting DRAGGED at one point. This is some spectacularly scary video here.
And the RIGHT side video is downright apocalyptic.
Folks, seriously, you need to see this video. It’s horrifying, it’s astonishing, and it will make quite sure you never think about a bus the same way again.
Tags: bus, bus driver, Camera, Cars, demolition derby, left side, right side, videoThere’s a Missouri car salesman who took a cameraman with him and went for a series of “test drives” in some high performance vehicles, reaching speeds of up to a hundred and fifty miles an hour.
You might wonder how anyone knew about this, and the answer is both simple and horrifying–he not only brought the cameraman along for his own amusement later, he brought the cameraman along so he could UPLOAD THE VIDEO TO YOUTUBE.
And the results of this? The cops actually arrested him.
The dealership, meanwhile, St. Louis Motorsports (which actually has a TON of videos on YouTube, one of which is below) said that they had nothing to do with this, and the dealer in question was a “rogue employee” who has been “reprimanded”.
The “rogue employee”, meanwhile,had no comment, but the dealership further said that the videos were made to give potential buyers “a full flavor” of the cars, and that he “wasn’t aware of the speeding”.
Tags: crime, high speed test drive, High-Speed, st. louis motorsports, video, YouTubeAll right, folks, we’ve got a real treat today, so lean back in your chair, crank those speakers up and brace yourself for a ride in a Saleen S7.
Of course, it’s merely a video, but still–the idea is there and it’s the thought that counts. You’ll get to hear some great accelerations and feel a lot of high speed thrills as we go shooting over the roads in this terrific ride.
You’ll also get to see the interior, the exterior, and the engine under the hood of the Saleen S7.
But perhaps the best part of the whole video is the filmmaker’s admission that they had to be plenty careful when they were driving this monster around, because several cops were in the area and they were more than eager for a chance to slap a ticket on somebody.
The video is below, so click and enjoy!
Tags: acceleration, engine, exterior, Interior, Police, Saleen, saleen s7It’s about four days until Christmas, folks. Chances are you’ve already got your plans well in place. Whether you’re going to see family or friends, or just making a day of it at the movies, there’ll be a familiar admonition ringing in your heads to please, just drive safely.
And to that end, the Transport Accident Commission has been releasing a series of advertisements for the last ten years designed to do what we’re looking to do with this post, too–to educate about the dangers of drunk driving in one of the best and most convincing manners available–video of horrendous accidents and their grief stricken aftermaths.
The TAC, an Australian group, has released a retrospective of the last ten years of advertising compressed into one five minute video, which we have below. It’s spectacularly brutal by any standards and probably wouldn’t be shown in the United States.
Take this with you…wherever you go, whatever you do, do it safely.
Tags: Advertising, Australia, Driving, driving drunk, drunk, drunk driving, TAC, Transport Accident CommissionFor those of you not already in the know, in England, a “caravan” is another word for what folks in the States call a “camper” or an “RV” or even a “trailer”.
So naturally, the guys out at Top Gear, those irrepressible–less charitable souls would call them “insane”, of course–scamps decided that they were going to take one of these things and turn it into an airship.
Of course, this being Top Gear, they’re not going to get off without talking about a car, so in between their discussion of the caravan airship, they’ve bookended bits about a new Lamborghini Balboni.
The airship, meanwhile, isn’t exactly the graceful prince of the skies you’d believe. Its maximum airspeed is roughly seventeen nautical miles per hour, and it can’t move forward in a headwind of more than thirteen knots. But it’s still pretty awesome, and frankly, I look for RV enthusiasts around here to start building their own airships pretty soon.
Tags: airship, camper, caravan, caravan airship, dirigible, Top GearThey’ve already crashed one of them.
I know, you’re goggling. That really is a lot to handle, so let me give you the background. Police took one of the Gallardos in question, loaded with a passel of optional gadgets like a built-in cooler for organ donations, to a student job fair, and on the way back, they had to swerve to avoid another car coming out of a gas station.
This launched an orgy of vehicular destruction that was, if reports are to be believed, was downright epic. It took out “a number of parked cars” before it ultimately came to rest UNDER a small SUV. Yeah, UNDER.
Though there’s no word about injuries, so it’s probably a safe bet to say there weren’t any. However, I’ll give odds there were a LOT of torqued Italians out there.
Tags: crash, Lamborghini, lamborghini gallardo, Police, police car, wreck, wreckage
Now here’s a nifty bit of news for you, that at the same time has a terribly chilling component to it. See, apparently, the folks behind the idrive X1, Solutions Group, just sold a whole bunch of them to an insurance group for use in a fleet of industrial trucks. ARI Insurance bought them to hand out to clients.
Now, I can see an insurance company wanting to mitigate some risk by offering free cameras to record events and thus make drivers safer, which in turn would lower premiums by requiring fewer claims to be paid out, but I can see insurers forcing everyone to have these, on pain of not selling any more insurance to them.
This is an unnerving development, though if my insurance were willing to drop my costs by putting a camera in my car I might well think about it. Especially if they put up the cost of the camera.
So what do you think? Would you take a discount on your insurance to mount a camera on your dash?
Tags: ARI insurance, auto insurance rates, car insurance, car insurance rates, dash cam, dash mounted camera, idrive camera, insurance rates
The answer to the above question would no doubt have many, many people interested, including people who probably shouldn’t be, like drug dealers and various other criminals. But as it turns out, according to research, you are fully EIGHTY SEVEN PERCENT LESS LIKELY to be pulled over and ticketed if you are driving a Jaguar XJ.
Why? Here’s the complete explanation from the company behind the research, Quality Planning:
The Jaguar XJ has a shape almost as old as the idea of the car. Until Ian Callum came along and boogered-up the design with the 2010 Jaguar XJ, the car was so ubiquitous, and favored by such old buyers, it’s practically never ticketed. The colors are generally sedate and unassuming, British Racing Green is as crazy as it gets, none of those obscene reds and yellows that draw radar guns. The trick is beneath the 40 year old skin is the possibility of an all-aluminum automobile sporting a 400 HP supercharged V8. It’s a perfect sleeper and the car least likely to get you ticketed.
Pretty rational when they put it that way, huh? It’s an old car that practically screams money, stability and safety, and who bothers to pull that over?
Tags: arrest, jaguar, jaguar xj, pulled over, quality planning, ticketIf you’ve ever thought that road rage was for total pussies, and that you’ve always secretly wanted to be one of the drivers of one of those sweet cars from that old Playstation series Twisted Metal, then between the shotgun turret I hit you with yesterday and today’s post, well, prepare to be thoroughly amazed.
Today we’re talking about one of apparently several different models of car flamethrower available on the market. This particular model here mounts to your exhaust pipes, and connects back to a switch you can mount on your dash.
From there, just press a button to trigger what looks like a two to three foot long gout of flame to burst out of the rear exhaust pipes on your car.
Granted, you’d never be able to take out Sweet Tooth with that short range, but two things are certain here: one, tailgaters are a thing of the past, and two, this is just awesome. Check out the video of this little number in operation directly below.
Tags: dash mounted switch, Dashboard, exhaust pipes, flamethrower, gout of flame, short range